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GAMES AT TWILIGHT
Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, …
Fire on the Mountain
Nanda Kaul is old. She has chosen to spend her last years high up in the mountains where she can arrange her thoughts into tranquility. But her solitude is broken when her fragile …
Det Brinner på Berget
Anita Desais roman Det brinner på berget i översättning av Gun R Bengtsson. Den gamla lite högfärdiga och förnäma damen Nanda har äntligen lyckats dra sig tillbaka i lugn och ro …
Artist of Disappearance
A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai's exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the …
Dagens klara ljus
Anita Desais roman Dagens klara ljus, i nyöversättning av Andreas Vesterlund, handlar om Tara och hennes syskon som har vuxit upp tillsammans i ett hus med stor trädgård i Old …
Village by the Sea
The Village by the Sea is a survival story by the novelist Anita Desai. Set in a small fishing villlage near Bombay, Lila and Hari, aged 13 and 12, struggle to keep the family, …
In Custody
Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India. An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees …
Försvinnandekonstnären
Försvinnandekonstnären innehåller tre berättelser – tre långnoveller eller om man så vill kortromaner – alla tre kretsar kring olika former av imponerande mästerverk som utförts i …
Sicksackvägen
Anita Desais roman Sicksackvägen i översättning av Andreas Vesterlund. Huvudpersonen, Eric, är en ung historieforskare som yrvaket har börjat undra över sitt eget ursprung och …
Baumgartner's Bombay
A perceptive observation about the human race cleverly constructed and told with Desai's opulent vocabulary.
Fasting, feasting
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZEUma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, …
Clear light of Day
**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**Discover the classic, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel from one of India's finest ever writers.To the family living in the …